Oxide and Friends

Books in the Box V


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Revisiting an annual tradition--Books in the Box! Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends share book recommendations (and--sometimes--anti-recommendations). Take a listen if you're looking for your next read.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by some guests noted below:

Previously, on Oxide and Friends:

  • OxF s05e06 - A Half‑Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup
  • OxF s05e26 - Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann
  • OxF s04e03 - Fork in the Road for Terraform
  • OxF s01e16 - The Books in the Box
  • OxF s02e18 - Books in the Box Redux
  • OxF s03e22 - Books in the Box III
  • OxF s04e28 - Books in the Box IV

Other Notes:

  • Princeton Review: Happiest Students
  • UMass Dining Named Best Campus Food by The Princeton Review
  • CHM Oral Histories
  • Night Rider (and K.I.T.T.)

From Bryan and Adam (and others)

  • The Mouse Driver Chronicles
  • Fumbling the Future
  • Slingshot
  • Chip War
  • Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital @bcantrill (economics book recommendation)
  • Snow Crash (another Neal Stephenson book)
  • The Big Short
  • Reinventing The Wheel
  • Eccentric Orbits (recommended by listener)
  • Language Machines Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism (recommended by listener)
  • Molly White's **review ** of Read Write Own
  • Careless People
  • NOT A RECOMMENDATION If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (If you are Molly White, please destroy this for us!)
  • Surreal Numbers by Knuth (recommended by listeners)

From Oliver Herman

  • Open Circuits
  • Systems Performance
  • Why We're Getting Poorer
  • Termination Shock

From Tom Lyon

  • From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog
    • See also Systems We Love: Life of an Airline Flight
  • The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
  • The NVIDIA Way

From Dan McDonald

  • Inventing the Renaissance
  • Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!


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